Not blogging too much lately, I am a bit overclocked with all the work
and university classes. Though in the positive side I enjoy my work and it
feels like I am doing my hobbies full-time, which is actually pretty cool.

My open source work these days concentrates around the Perl interface
for
FluidDB, Net::FluidDB, the Rails documentation project
docrails, and
writing the Active Support Core Extensions Rails Guide, which
I'd like to finish
for Rails 3. I am doing Net::FluidDB from Fluidinfo
by the way.

With Net::FluidDB I've discovered Moose. That's the de facto
standard nowadays for
writing object-oriented Perl
and it is fucking awesome. Very concise, good abstractions, and
powerful.

Moose supports a lot of
stuff, for instance
attributes are declared. You can
declare also their visibility, predicates, whether they are required, or lazy...
There's multi-inheritance and roles (think Ruby
mixins). Method delegation, method modifiers (before callbacks and such as in CLOS or Rails). Meta-classes and
other stuff
for meta-programming... It's an amazing module, doing OO with it is a joy. And it is very well designed
in my view, usage feels just right.

Even if you are not into Perl I think the Moose Manual
is worth having a look at.